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><H1
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><A
NAME="RUNTIME-CONFIG-QUERY"
>18.7. Query Planning</A
></H1
><DIV
CLASS="SECT2"
><H2
CLASS="SECT2"
><A
NAME="RUNTIME-CONFIG-QUERY-ENABLE"
>18.7.1. Planner Method Configuration</A
></H2
><P
>       These configuration parameters provide a crude method of
       influencing the query plans chosen by the query optimizer. If
       the default plan chosen by the optimizer for a particular query
       is not optimal, a <SPAN
CLASS="emphasis"
><I
CLASS="EMPHASIS"
>temporary</I
></SPAN
> solution is to use one
       of these configuration parameters to force the optimizer to
       choose a different plan.
       Better ways to improve the quality of the
       plans chosen by the optimizer include adjusting the planer cost
       constants (see <A
HREF="runtime-config-query.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-QUERY-CONSTANTS"
>Section 18.7.2</A
>),
       running <A
HREF="sql-analyze.html"
>ANALYZE</A
> manually, increasing
       the value of the <A
HREF="runtime-config-query.html#GUC-DEFAULT-STATISTICS-TARGET"
>default_statistics_target</A
> configuration parameter,
       and increasing the amount of statistics collected for
       specific columns using <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>ALTER TABLE SET
       STATISTICS</TT
>.
      </P
><P
></P
><DIV
CLASS="VARIABLELIST"
><DL
><DT
><A
NAME="GUC-ENABLE-BITMAPSCAN"
></A
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>enable_bitmapscan</TT
> (<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>boolean</TT
>)</DT
><DD
><P
>        Enables or disables the query planner's use of bitmap-scan plan
        types. The default is <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>on</TT
>.
       </P
></DD
><DT
><A
NAME="GUC-ENABLE-HASHAGG"
></A
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>enable_hashagg</TT
> (<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>boolean</TT
>)</DT
><DD
><P
>        Enables or disables the query planner's use of hashed
        aggregation plan types. The default is <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>on</TT
>.
       </P
></DD
><DT
><A
NAME="GUC-ENABLE-HASHJOIN"
></A
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>enable_hashjoin</TT
> (<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>boolean</TT
>)</DT
><DD
><P
>        Enables or disables the query planner's use of hash-join plan
        types. The default is <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>on</TT
>.
       </P
></DD
><DT
><A
NAME="GUC-ENABLE-INDEXSCAN"
></A
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>enable_indexscan</TT
> (<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>boolean</TT
>)</DT
><DD
><P
>        Enables or disables the query planner's use of index-scan plan
        types. The default is <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>on</TT
>.
       </P
></DD
><DT
><A
NAME="GUC-ENABLE-MATERIAL"
></A
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>enable_material</TT
> (<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>boolean</TT
>)</DT
><DD
><P
>        Enables or disables the query planner's use of materialization.
        It is impossible to suppress materialization entirely,
        but turning this variable off prevents the planner from inserting
        materialize nodes except in cases where it is required for correctness.
        The default is <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>on</TT
>.
       </P
></DD
><DT
><A
NAME="GUC-ENABLE-MERGEJOIN"
></A
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>enable_mergejoin</TT
> (<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>boolean</TT
>)</DT
><DD
><P
>        Enables or disables the query planner's use of merge-join plan
        types. The default is <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>on</TT
>.
       </P
></DD
><DT
><A
NAME="GUC-ENABLE-NESTLOOP"
></A
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>enable_nestloop</TT
> (<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>boolean</TT
>)</DT
><DD
><P
>        Enables or disables the query planner's use of nested-loop join
        plans. It is impossible to suppress nested-loop joins entirely,
        but turning this variable off discourages the planner from using
        one if there are other methods available. The default is
        <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>on</TT
>.
       </P
></DD
><DT
><A
NAME="GUC-ENABLE-SEQSCAN"
></A
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>enable_seqscan</TT
> (<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>boolean</TT
>)</DT
><DD
><P
>        Enables or disables the query planner's use of sequential scan
        plan types. It is impossible to suppress sequential scans
        entirely, but turning this variable off discourages the planner
        from using one if there are other methods available. The
        default is <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>on</TT
>.
       </P
></DD
><DT
><A
NAME="GUC-ENABLE-SORT"
></A
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>enable_sort</TT
> (<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>boolean</TT
>)</DT
><DD
><P
>        Enables or disables the query planner's use of explicit sort
        steps. It is impossible to suppress explicit sorts entirely,
        but turning this variable off discourages the planner from
        using one if there are other methods available. The default
        is <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>on</TT
>.
       </P
></DD
><DT
><A
NAME="GUC-ENABLE-TIDSCAN"
></A
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>enable_tidscan</TT
> (<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>boolean</TT
>)</DT
><DD
><P
>        Enables or disables the query planner's use of <ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>TID</ACRONYM
>
        scan plan types. The default is <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>on</TT
>.
       </P
></DD
></DL
></DIV
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="SECT2"
><H2
CLASS="SECT2"
><A
NAME="RUNTIME-CONFIG-QUERY-CONSTANTS"
>18.7.2. Planner Cost Constants</A
></H2
><P
>     The <I
CLASS="FIRSTTERM"
>cost</I
> variables described in this section are measured
     on an arbitrary scale.  Only their relative values matter, hence
     scaling them all up or down by the same factor will result in no change
     in the planner's choices.  By default, these cost variables are based on
     the cost of sequential page fetches; that is,
     <TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>seq_page_cost</TT
> is conventionally set to <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>1.0</TT
>
     and the other cost variables are set with reference to that.  But
     you can use a different scale if you prefer, such as actual execution
     times in milliseconds on a particular machine.
    </P
><DIV
CLASS="NOTE"
><BLOCKQUOTE
CLASS="NOTE"
><P
><B
>Note: </B
>     Unfortunately, there is no well-defined method for determining ideal
     values for the cost variables.  They are best treated as averages over
     the entire mix of queries that a particular installation will receive.  This
     means that changing them on the basis of just a few experiments is very
     risky.
    </P
></BLOCKQUOTE
></DIV
><P
></P
><DIV
CLASS="VARIABLELIST"
><DL
><DT
><A
NAME="GUC-SEQ-PAGE-COST"
></A
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>seq_page_cost</TT
> (<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>floating point</TT
>)</DT
><DD
><P
>        Sets the planner's estimate of the cost of a disk page fetch
        that is part of a series of sequential fetches.  The default is 1.0.
        This value can be overridden for a particular tablespace by setting
        the tablespace parameter of the same name
        (see <A
HREF="sql-altertablespace.html"
>ALTER TABLESPACE</A
>).
       </P
></DD
><DT
><A
NAME="GUC-RANDOM-PAGE-COST"
></A
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>random_page_cost</TT
> (<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>floating point</TT
>)</DT
><DD
><P
>        Sets the planner's estimate of the cost of a
        non-sequentially-fetched disk page.  The default is 4.0.
        This value can be overridden for a particular tablespace by setting
        the tablespace parameter of the same name
        (see <A
HREF="sql-altertablespace.html"
>ALTER TABLESPACE</A
>).
       </P
><P
>        Reducing this value relative to <TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>seq_page_cost</TT
>
        will cause the system to prefer index scans; raising it will
        make index scans look relatively more expensive.  You can raise
        or lower both values together to change the importance of disk I/O
        costs relative to CPU costs, which are described by the following
        parameters.
       </P
><DIV
CLASS="TIP"
><BLOCKQUOTE
CLASS="TIP"
><P
><B
>Tip: </B
>         Although the system will let you set <TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>random_page_cost</TT
> to
         less than <TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>seq_page_cost</TT
>, it is not physically sensible
         to do so.  However, setting them equal makes sense if the database
         is entirely cached in RAM, since in that case there is no penalty
         for touching pages out of sequence.  Also, in a heavily-cached
         database you should lower both values relative to the CPU parameters,
         since the cost of fetching a page already in RAM is much smaller
         than it would normally be.
        </P
></BLOCKQUOTE
></DIV
></DD
><DT
><A
NAME="GUC-CPU-TUPLE-COST"
></A
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>cpu_tuple_cost</TT
> (<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>floating point</TT
>)</DT
><DD
><P
>        Sets the planner's estimate of the cost of processing
        each row during a query.
        The default is 0.01.
       </P
></DD
><DT
><A
NAME="GUC-CPU-INDEX-TUPLE-COST"
></A
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>cpu_index_tuple_cost</TT
> (<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>floating point</TT
>)</DT
><DD
><P
>        Sets the planner's estimate of the cost of processing
        each index entry during an index scan.
        The default is 0.005.
       </P
></DD
><DT
><A
NAME="GUC-CPU-OPERATOR-COST"
></A
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>cpu_operator_cost</TT
> (<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>floating point</TT
>)</DT
><DD
><P
>        Sets the planner's estimate of the cost of processing each
        operator or function executed during a query.
        The default is 0.0025.
       </P
></DD
><DT
><A
NAME="GUC-EFFECTIVE-CACHE-SIZE"
></A
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>effective_cache_size</TT
> (<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>integer</TT
>)</DT
><DD
><P
>        Sets the planner's assumption about the effective size of the
        disk cache that is available to a single query.  This is
        factored into estimates of the cost of using an index; a
        higher value makes it more likely index scans will be used, a
        lower value makes it more likely sequential scans will be
        used. When setting this parameter you should consider both
        <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
>'s shared buffers and the
        portion of the kernel's disk cache that will be used for
        <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
> data files.  Also, take
        into account the expected number of concurrent queries on different
        tables, since they will have to share the available
        space.  This parameter has no effect on the size of shared
        memory allocated by <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
>, nor
        does it reserve kernel disk cache; it is used only for estimation
        purposes.  The system also does not assume data remains in
        the disk cache between queries.  The default is 128 megabytes
        (<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>128MB</TT
>).
       </P
></DD
></DL
></DIV
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="SECT2"
><H2
CLASS="SECT2"
><A
NAME="RUNTIME-CONFIG-QUERY-GEQO"
>18.7.3. Genetic Query Optimizer</A
></H2
><P
>      The genetic query optimizer (GEQO) is an algorithm that does query
      planning using heuristic searching.  This reduces planning time for
      complex queries (those joining many relations), at the cost of producing
      plans that are sometimes inferior to those found by the normal
      exhaustive-search algorithm.  Also, GEQO's searching is randomized and
      therefore its plans may vary nondeterministically.
      For more information see <A
HREF="geqo.html"
>Chapter 51</A
>.
     </P
><P
></P
><DIV
CLASS="VARIABLELIST"
><DL
><DT
><A
NAME="GUC-GEQO"
></A
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>geqo</TT
> (<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>boolean</TT
>)</DT
><DD
><P
>        Enables or disables genetic query optimization.
        This is on by default.  It is usually best not to turn it off in
        production; the <TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>geqo_threshold</TT
> variable provides
        more granular control of GEQO.
       </P
></DD
><DT
><A
NAME="GUC-GEQO-THRESHOLD"
></A
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>geqo_threshold</TT
> (<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>integer</TT
>)</DT
><DD
><P
>        Use genetic query optimization to plan queries with at least
        this many <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>FROM</TT
> items involved. (Note that a
        <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>FULL OUTER JOIN</TT
> construct counts as only one <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>FROM</TT
>
        item.) The default is 12. For simpler queries it is usually best
        to use the deterministic, exhaustive planner, but for queries with
        many tables the deterministic planner takes too long, often
        longer than the penalty of executing a suboptimal plan.
       </P
></DD
><DT
><A
NAME="GUC-GEQO-EFFORT"
></A
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>geqo_effort</TT
>
      (<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>integer</TT
>)</DT
><DD
><P
>        Controls the trade-off between planning time and query plan
        quality in GEQO. This variable must be an integer in the
        range from 1 to 10. The default value is five. Larger values
        increase the time spent doing query planning, but also
        increase the likelihood that an efficient query plan will be
        chosen.
       </P
><P
>        <TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>geqo_effort</TT
> doesn't actually do anything
        directly; it is only used to compute the default values for
        the other variables that influence GEQO behavior (described
        below). If you prefer, you can set the other parameters by
        hand instead.
       </P
></DD
><DT
><A
NAME="GUC-GEQO-POOL-SIZE"
></A
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>geqo_pool_size</TT
> (<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>integer</TT
>)</DT
><DD
><P
>        Controls the pool size used by GEQO, that is the
        number of individuals in the genetic population.  It must be
        at least two, and useful values are typically 100 to 1000.  If
        it is set to zero (the default setting) then a suitable
        value is chosen based on <TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>geqo_effort</TT
> and
        the number of tables in the query.
       </P
></DD
><DT
><A
NAME="GUC-GEQO-GENERATIONS"
></A
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>geqo_generations</TT
> (<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>integer</TT
>)</DT
><DD
><P
>        Controls the number of generations used by GEQO, that is
        the number of iterations of the algorithm.  It must
        be at least one, and useful values are in the same range as
        the pool size.  If it is set to zero (the default setting)
        then a suitable value is chosen based on
        <TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>geqo_pool_size</TT
>.
       </P
></DD
><DT
><A
NAME="GUC-GEQO-SELECTION-BIAS"
></A
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>geqo_selection_bias</TT
> (<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>floating point</TT
>)</DT
><DD
><P
>        Controls the selection bias used by GEQO. The selection bias
        is the selective pressure within the population. Values can be
        from 1.50 to 2.00; the latter is the default.
       </P
></DD
><DT
><A
NAME="GUC-GEQO-SEED"
></A
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>geqo_seed</TT
> (<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>floating point</TT
>)</DT
><DD
><P
>        Controls the initial value of the random number generator used
        by GEQO to select random paths through the join order search space.
        The value can range from zero (the default) to one.  Varying the
        value changes the set of join paths explored, and may result in a
        better or worse best path being found.
       </P
></DD
></DL
></DIV
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="SECT2"
><H2
CLASS="SECT2"
><A
NAME="RUNTIME-CONFIG-QUERY-OTHER"
>18.7.4. Other Planner Options</A
></H2
><P
></P
><DIV
CLASS="VARIABLELIST"
><DL
><DT
><A
NAME="GUC-DEFAULT-STATISTICS-TARGET"
></A
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>default_statistics_target</TT
> (<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>integer</TT
>)</DT
><DD
><P
>        Sets the default statistics target for table columns without
        a column-specific target set via <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>ALTER TABLE
        SET STATISTICS</TT
>.  Larger values increase the time needed to
        do <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>ANALYZE</TT
>, but might improve the quality of the
        planner's estimates. The default is 100. For more information
        on the use of statistics by the <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
>
        query planner, refer to <A
HREF="planner-stats.html"
>Section 14.2</A
>.
       </P
></DD
><DT
><A
NAME="GUC-CONSTRAINT-EXCLUSION"
></A
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>constraint_exclusion</TT
> (<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>enum</TT
>)</DT
><DD
><P
>        Controls the query planner's use of table constraints to
        optimize queries.
        The allowed values of <TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>constraint_exclusion</TT
> are
        <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>on</TT
> (examine constraints for all tables),
        <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>off</TT
> (never examine constraints), and
        <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>partition</TT
> (examine constraints only for inheritance child
        tables and <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>UNION ALL</TT
> subqueries).
        <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>partition</TT
> is the default setting.
        It is often used with inheritance and partitioned tables to
        improve performance.
      </P
><P
>        When this parameter allows it for a particular table, the planner
        compares query conditions with the table's <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>CHECK</TT
>
        constraints, and omits scanning tables for which the conditions
        contradict the constraints.  For example:

</P><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>CREATE TABLE parent(key integer, ...);
CREATE TABLE child1000(check (key between 1000 and 1999)) INHERITS(parent);
CREATE TABLE child2000(check (key between 2000 and 2999)) INHERITS(parent);
...
SELECT * FROM parent WHERE key = 2400;</PRE
><P>

        With constraint exclusion enabled, this <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>SELECT</TT
>
        will not scan <TT
CLASS="STRUCTNAME"
>child1000</TT
> at all, improving performance.
       </P
><P
>        Currently, constraint exclusion is enabled by default
        only for cases that are often used to implement table partitioning.
        Turning it on for all tables imposes extra planning overhead that is
        quite noticeable on simple queries, and most often will yield no
        benefit for simple queries.  If you have no partitioned tables
        you might prefer to turn it off entirely.
       </P
><P
>        Refer to <A
HREF="ddl-partitioning.html#DDL-PARTITIONING-CONSTRAINT-EXCLUSION"
>Section 5.9.4</A
> for
        more information on using constraint exclusion and partitioning.
       </P
></DD
><DT
><A
NAME="GUC-CURSOR-TUPLE-FRACTION"
></A
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>cursor_tuple_fraction</TT
> (<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>floating point</TT
>)</DT
><DD
><P
>        Sets the planner's estimate of the fraction of a cursor's rows that
        will be retrieved.  The default is 0.1.  Smaller values of this
        setting bias the planner towards using <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"fast start"</SPAN
> plans
        for cursors, which will retrieve the first few rows quickly while
        perhaps taking a long time to fetch all rows.  Larger values
        put more emphasis on the total estimated time.  At the maximum
        setting of 1.0, cursors are planned exactly like regular queries,
        considering only the total estimated time and not how soon the
        first rows might be delivered.
       </P
></DD
><DT
><A
NAME="GUC-FROM-COLLAPSE-LIMIT"
></A
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>from_collapse_limit</TT
> (<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>integer</TT
>)</DT
><DD
><P
>        The planner will merge sub-queries into upper queries if the
        resulting <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>FROM</TT
> list would have no more than
        this many items.  Smaller values reduce planning time but might
        yield inferior query plans.  The default is eight.
        For more information see <A
HREF="explicit-joins.html"
>Section 14.3</A
>.
       </P
><P
>        Setting this value to <A
HREF="runtime-config-query.html#GUC-GEQO-THRESHOLD"
>geqo_threshold</A
> or more
        may trigger use of the GEQO planner, resulting in nondeterministic
        plans.  See <A
HREF="runtime-config-query.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-QUERY-GEQO"
>Section 18.7.3</A
>.
       </P
></DD
><DT
><A
NAME="GUC-JOIN-COLLAPSE-LIMIT"
></A
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>join_collapse_limit</TT
> (<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>integer</TT
>)</DT
><DD
><P
>        The planner will rewrite explicit <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>JOIN</TT
>
        constructs (except <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>FULL JOIN</TT
>s) into lists of
        <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>FROM</TT
> items whenever a list of no more than this many items
        would result.  Smaller values reduce planning time but might
        yield inferior query plans.
       </P
><P
>        By default, this variable is set the same as
        <TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>from_collapse_limit</TT
>, which is appropriate
        for most uses. Setting it to 1 prevents any reordering of
        explicit <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>JOIN</TT
>s. Thus, the explicit join order
        specified in the query will be the actual order in which the
        relations are joined. Because the query planner does not always choose
        the optimal join order, advanced users can elect to
        temporarily set this variable to 1, and then specify the join
        order they desire explicitly.
        For more information see <A
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>Section 14.3</A
>.
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>        Setting this value to <A
HREF="runtime-config-query.html#GUC-GEQO-THRESHOLD"
>geqo_threshold</A
> or more
        may trigger use of the GEQO planner, resulting in nondeterministic
        plans.  See <A
HREF="runtime-config-query.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-QUERY-GEQO"
>Section 18.7.3</A
>.
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